On Feb 3, 2011, at 15:02 , ext Ben Abbott wrote:
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> On Feb 3, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
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>> I have had no problem linking Octave compiled with gcc-4.2 with libraries (C, fortran) build with later gcc/gfortran versions. But I have been building 64-bit only, so we a re likely seeing different problems...
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>> Jarno
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> Ok, you've corrected my understanding of the problem a bit.
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> Have you tried to build octave using gcc-4.2.1 in combination with gfortran > 4.2? This is what did not work for me.
No, I have always assumed that to not work :-) Trying it out.. it fails on libstdc++ problems I have seen before (libgfortran pulls in newer libstdc++ and calls to different libstdc++ versions get mixed up.). For the dependencies this does not seem to be a problem, however.
Jarno